Stop and check valve



(No Model.)

W. S. COOPER. Stop and Check Valve.

Patented Oct. 5, i880.,

l l ll XIII ILPEERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

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WILLIAM S. COOPER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOP AND CHECK VALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,941, dated October 5, 1880.

Application filed August 16, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. COOPER, a citizen of the United States, residingin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Stop and Check Valves, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to afford facilities for regrinding the valves proper of stop and cheek valves to their seats, and in the case of stop-valves to insure'the durability ot' the threaded portion of the \f'alvespindle and its nut, as fully explained hereinafter.

Intheaccompanyingdrawings,Figuresland f? are vertical sections of a stopyalve provided with niy iinprovcn'ient, and showing the valve proper in different positions; Fig. 3, a sec- 1'ionul plan on the line l 2- Fi0.4 a )ersiee l 23 7 I @ve view ot' the nut of the threaded valvepindle, Figs. 5 and 6, sectional views of the valve and part of the valve-spindle, illustrating one of the features of my invention; Fig. 7, a sectional view, showing my improvement applied to a check-valve, and Fig. 8 a perspective view of part of the cheek-valve.

In Figs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, A is the valvechest, having the usual branches a a for receiving the ends of the pipes, there being within the chest the ordinary partition I), having an opening, on the edge of which is formed the seat for the valve B, which is connected to the threaded spindle D in the manner shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

'Ihe chest A has a third branch, d, into which is screwed the casin g or cap E, having a chainber, c, for receiving the nut F, and an upper chamber, j', into which the threaded portion of the valve-spindle can pass freely, as shown in Fig. 2, the casing being surmounted with a stufting-box, Gr, adapted to the plain portion of the valve-spindle D.

The nut F has opposite lugs h h, as shown in Fig. 4t, which fit freely into slots made in that portion of the casing which screws into the branch d of the chest, these lugs being either plain at the ends and free from the internal screw-thread in the said branch d, or threads may be cut on the ends ofthe lugs, as show, in Fig. 8, so as to correspond with the said internal screw-thread of the branch d.

A shoulder, fi, is formed within the casing E, and this shoulder resists the upward thrust Voccupied b v the threaded stein on the nut F on tightening the valve to its seat, the lugs h h being sufficiently loose in the slots to be relieved from this thrust.

In many valves ofthe class to which my invention relates a comparatively sinall portion ot' the threaded part of the valve-spindle is within the liniit of the nut when the valve is on its seat, -and this is objectionable, as there are few convolutions of the thread to resist the strain, and this must result in the unequal wearing of the screw-thread.

The cha-inberfin the casing E admits the threaded portion ot' the spindle, as shown in Fig. 2,' hence that portion may be of such a length that when the valve is on its seat, as in Fig. l, nearly the whole of the nut will contain convolutions of the thread of the spindle.

Willen the valve has to be reground to its seat the nutF is removed, and asinallscrew, t, is introduced into a threaded opening in the valve-spindle, its point entering a recess in a cylindrical projection, y, on the valve, so as to secure the latter to the said spindle, after which the spindle and valve may be manipulated in the manner usually adopted in regrinding valves to their seats.

In order that there may always be a proper screw, t, at hand, I forni in the under side of the valve a threaded recess, w, which may be ot' the screw, excepting when it is valve to the valveas in Fig. 5, at all times, required for securing the spindle.

When iny invention is applied to a checkl valve, as shown in Fig. 7, a threadless guide, F', takes the place of the nut F, the plain spindle D', which forms part otl the valve B, being arranged to slidein this guide, which is contained in the casing or cap E', the latter being screwed into the branch d ofthe valvechest. In this modifica-tion the lugs L h ofthe guide may be threaded, as shown in Fig. 8, so that when the valve has to be reground to its seat the cap E may be detached and the guide screwed into the threaded interior of the chest and used as a centering inediuin, while, by a suitable instrumentintroduced into an critico, p, of the. valve-spindle, the valve may be operated in the usual manner adoptedin rescating.

I claim as my invention-m l. The combination, in 2L stop or check valve, of a nut or guide adapted to the Valve-spindle, und having lugs h 7L, with a, casing or cap detachehly secured to the valve-chest, forming in chamber for receiving the guide, and hziving` slots adapted to the said lugs, all substant-idly as setforth.

2. The combination, in zi stopwaive, of the threaded valve-spindle D and nut F with the detachable casing E, containing zi chamber, e, for receivin` the nut which is connected tothe easing, and d chamber, f, 'for receiving the threaded portion of the spindle, L11 substantiaily as set forth.

3. rlhe combination, in a. stop-valve, of the threaded spindle having a, threaded oritiee, m, for receiving ai screw, w, with avidve, B,h.iv

Witnesses H. R. SHUL'rZ, HENRY HoWsoN, Jr. 

